Too Important for the Masses to Decide **************** Wherein the tendency of a ruling elite to tyrannize and self protect is (normal self- protection of leaders notwithstanding) ameliorated by a broader rather than narrower democratic process (as envisioned by the framers of the constitution) and how this is perverted when expert knowledge makes a defacto unremovable ruling class that the average citizen is not smart enough to argue with or even to know when they should be fired. The attitude needs to be ”if you’re not smart enough to ‘splain it to me (Lucy!) then we’ll find somebody who is!” **************** Liberal means you think the people lag behind the politicians and that’s good! Conservatives think the pols should lag behind the people |